4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

V. THESIS:

I am at rest, GOD is at work in me.

VI. TITLE:

New testament rest

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Date of writing: Before AD. 70

B. Style of writing: Best Greek style

C. Authorship: Not specific, but generally attributed to Apostle Paul. Can be also ascribed to Barnabas, Luke, Apollos

D. Audience: Hebrew Christians

E. Theme: Christ is superior to the prophets; Christ is superior to angels—J. Vernon McGee's Thru The Bible

F. Purpose: The chief doctrinal purpose of the writer was to show the transcendent glory of the Christian dispensation, as compared with that of the Old Testament.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

G. Keyword: better

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. Joshua did not give them rest in Canaan

"[This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For if Joshua had given them rest,"

Joshua came from the Hebrew word, meaning "Jehovah-saved". Joshua is a type of Jesus, proclaiming and declaring the GOD saves, not him, the LORD JESUS delivered them to the Promise Land - that is New Testament Rest. Joshua is rendered as "Jesus" in the King James version but it's actually "Joshua", but of course, we know that JESUS actually delivered them from their enemies into the promise land, Canaan, into that time.

7:45 Our forefathers in turn brought it [this tent of witness] in [with them into the land] with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations which God drove out before the face of our forefathers. [So it remained here] until the time of David,

3:14 So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

3:15 And when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were in the brink of the water—for the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest—

3:16 Then the waters which came down from above stood and rose up in a heap far off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt [Dead] Sea, were wholly cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.